CVE-2021-28678

Insufficient Verification of Data Authenticity in Pillow

Description

An issue was discovered in Pillow before 8.2.0. For BLP data, BlpImagePlugin did not properly check that reads (after jumping to file offsets) returned data. This could lead to a DoS where the decoder could be run a large number of times on empty data.

Patch Available

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Score

Severity

Ecosystem

Python

Publish Date

June 2, 2021

Modified Date

December 5, 2023

Score Vector

Affected Versions